Birthdays:
2003 ~ Greta Thunberg (née Greta Tintin Eleonora Emman Thunberg), Swedish environmental activist. In 2019, her campaign on climate change gained her world-wide recognition. She was Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
1981 ~ Eli Manning (né Elisha Nelson Manning, IV), American football player from New Orleans, Louisiana.
1975 ~ Danica McKellar (née Danica Mae McKeller), American actress and mathematician. She was born in La Jolla, California.
1956 ~ Mel Gibson (né Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson), American actor. In his later years, he became a controversial figure, spewing anti-Semitic and anti-gay ideology. He was born in Peekskill, New York.
1950 ~ Victoria Principal (née Vicki Ree Principal), American actress. She is best known for her role as Pam Ewing on the television drama Dallas. She was born in Fukuoka, Japan. He father was in the United States Air Force, and was stationed in Japan when she was born.
1941 ~ Franklin McCain (né Franklin Eugene McCain; d. Jan. 9, 2014), African-American civil rights activist and man who lead the Greensboro Four at the Woolworth lunch counter in 1960 when he was a student at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. He was born in Union County, North Carolina and died in Greensboro, North Carolina. He died 6 days after his 73rd birthday.
1939 ~ Bobby Hull (né Robert Marvin Hull), Canadian ice hockey player. He was born in Point Anne, Ontario, Canada.
1937 ~ Glen Larson (né Glen Albert Larson; d. Nov. 14, 2014), American writer-producer who churned out hit television shows. He created such shows as Battleship Galactica and Quincy, M.D. He died at age 77.
1934 ~ Carla Anderson Hills (née Carla Anderson), 5th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. She served in the Gerald Ford administration from March 1975 until January 1977. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
1932 ~ Dabney Coleman (né Dabney Wharton Coleman), American actor. He is best known for his role as the boss in the movie 9 to 5. He was born in Austin, Texas.
1930 ~ Robert Loggia (né Salvatore Loggia; d. Dec. 4, 2015), American actor. He died of Alzheimer’s disease a month before his 86th birthday.
1926 ~ Sir George Martin (né George Henry Martin; d. March 8, 2016), British experimental recording producer who guided the Beatles. He was sometimes referred to as the Fifth Beatle because of his involvement in each of the Beatles albums. He died at age 90.
1926 ~ W. Michael Blumenthal (né Werner Michael Blumenthal), 64th United States Secretary of the Treasury. He served under President Jimmy Carter from January 1977 until August 1979. He was born in Oranienburg, Germany. He and his family moved immigrated to the United States in 1939 to escape from the Nazi regime.
1921 ~ Isabella Bashmakova (d. July 17, 2005), Russian historian of mathematics. She died at age 84.
1917 ~ Vernon Walters (d. Feb. 10, 2002), 17th Ambassador to the United Nations during the Ronald Reagan administration, from May 1985 until March 1989. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 85 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
1917 ~ Roger Williams Straus, Jr. (d. May 25, 2004), American journalist and publisher and co-founder of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He died at age 87.
1916 ~ Betty Furness (née Elizabeth Mary Furness; d. Apr. 2, 1994), American actress and television journalist. She was also a consumer advocate. She died of stomach cancer at age 78.
1909 ~ Victor Borge (né Børge Rosenbaum; d. Dec. 23, 2000), Danish-born comedian and pianist. He died at age 91, just 11 days before his 92nd birthday.
1905 ~ Anna May Wong (d. Feb. 3, 1961), Asian-American actress. She was a Cinematic trailblazer. She is considered the first Chinese-American Hollywood movie star. She became a silent film star in the 1920s. Because of miscegenation laws prevented interracial couples to appear on screen, her acting opportunities were limited to stereotype roles. She moved to Europe where audiences were more receptive to her talents. She ultimately returned to the United States and continued to speak out against discrimination. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She died of a heart attack a month after her 56th birthday in Santa Monica, California.
1901 ~ Ngô Đinh Diêm (d. Nov. 2, 1963), 1st President of South Vietnam. He served as President from October 1955 until his assassination following a military coup in November 1963. He was 62 at the time of his death.
1892 ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (né John Ronald Reuel Tolkien; d. Sept. 2, 1973), British author best known for his novels The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings series. He died at age 81.
1883 ~ Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee (né Clement Richard Attlee; d. Oct. 8, 1967), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served as Prime Minister from July 1845 until October 1951 during the reign of King George VI. He died of pneumonia at age 84.
1879 ~ Grace Coolidge (née Grace Anna Goodhue; d. July 8, 1957), First Lady and wife of President Calvin Coolidge. She was born in Burlington, Vermont. She died of heart disease at age 78 in Northhampton, Massachusetts.
1840 ~ Father Damien (né Jozef De Veuster; d. Apr. 15, 1889) Roman Catholic priest from Belgium who was known for his ministry to people with leprosy in Molokai, Hawaii. He died of leprosy at age 49.
1793 ~ Lucretia Mott (née Lucretia Coffin; d. Nov. 11, 1880), American leader of the abolitionist and women’s rights movements in the United States. She was from Nantucket, Massachusetts. She died at age 87 in Pennsylvania.
106 BCE ~ Marcus Tillius Cicero (d. BCE Dec. 7, 43), Roman statesman and philosopher. These are the dates ascribed to his birth and assassination. He died at age 63.
Events that Changed the World:
1993 ~ United States President George H.W. Bush (1924 ~ 2018) and Russian leader Boris Yeltsin (1931 ~ 2007) signed the Second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
1990 ~ Manuel Noriega (1934 ~ 2017), the former dictator of Panama, surrendered to American forces.
1977 ~ Apple Computer was incorporated.
1962 ~ Pope John XXIII (1881 ~ 1963) excommunicated Fidel Castro (1926 ~ 2016).
1961 ~ The United States severed its diplomatic relations with Cuba. It would be 54 years before relations were re-established.
1959 ~ Alaska became the 49th State of the Union.
1957 ~ The first electric watches were introduced by the Hamilton Watch Company.
1956 ~ A fire damaged the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1953 ~ Frances Bolton (1885 ~ 1977) and her son, Oliver (1917 ~ 1972) became the first mother and son to serve in the United States Congress at the same time. Mrs. Bolton served as a member of the United States House of Representative from the 22nd District of Ohio. Oliver Bolton served as a Representative from the 11th District of Ohio.
1949 ~ Chinese Communists captured Chongqing.
1947 ~ The proceedings of the United States Congress were televised for the first time.
1938 ~ President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 ~ 1945) established the March of Dimes campaign to fight polio.
1935 ~ Bruno Hauptmann (1899 ~ 1936) went on trial for the kidnapping and murder of the infant son of Charles and Anna Lindbergh. He was ultimately found guilty and was executed.
1933 ~ Minnie D. Craig (1883 ~ 1966) became the first female elected as Speaker of the House in North Dakota. She was the first woman to hold the office of Speaker in any state of the Union.
1932 ~ Martial law was declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers who had been fired by the United Fruit Company. This event is recounted in Rich Cohen’s book, The Fish that Ate the Whale.
1925 ~ Benito Mussolini (1883 ~ 1945) announced he was taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
1919 ~ At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq (1885 ~ 1933) signed an agreement with Chaim Weizmann (1874 ~ 1952), a Zionist leader, pertaining to the development of a Jewish homeland in what was referred to as Palestine.
1911 ~ A 7.7 magnitude earthquake destroyed the Almaty, Turkestan.
1870 ~ Construction on the Brooklyn Bridge began. It would open in May 1883.
1861 ~ During the period leading up to the American Civil War, the State of Delaware voted not to secede from the United States.
1848 ~ Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809 ~ 1876), an African-American merchant was sworn in as the 1st President of Liberia. He had been born free in Norfolk, Virginia. He emigrated to Liberia in the 1820s under the American Colonization Society, an organization designed to create a colony of Liberia on Africa’s west coast for the relocation of African-American slaves. He died at age 66 in Monrovia, Liberia.
1823 ~ Stephen Austin (1793 ~ 1836) received a land grant in Texas from the government of Mexico.
1777 ~ During the American Revolutionary War, General George Washington’s army defeated British General Charles Cornwallis (1738 ~ 1805) at the Battle of Princeton.
1749 ~ Benning Wentworth (1696 ~ 1770), the colonial governor of New Hampshire, issued the first of the New Hampshire Grants, which ultimately lead to the establishment of the State of Vermont.
1521 ~ Martin Luther (1483 ~ 1546) was excommunicated by Pope Leo X (1475 ~ 1521).
Good-Byes:
2019 ~ Herb Kelleher (né Herbert David Kehheler; b. Mar. 12, 1931), American fun-loving CEO who shook up air travel. He was the founder and later CEO and chairman of Southwest Airlines. He died at age 87.
2015 ~ Edward Brooke, III (né Edward William Brooke, III; b. Oct. 26, 1919), African-American pioneering United States Senator from Massachusetts who transcended America’s racial divide. He was a Republican politician who became the first African-American to win a Senate seat in a popular election. He also served as the Attorney General of Massachusetts. He died at age 95.
2014 ~ Phil Everly (né Philip Everly; b. Jan. 19, 1939), the American harmonizer who inspired the Beatles. Together with his brother, Don (b. 1937), they formed the Everly Brothers. He died of lung disease 16 days before his 75th birthday.
2014 ~ Saul Zaentz (b. Feb. 28, 1921), American film producer who put literature on the screen. He is best known for such films as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The English Patient, and The Lord of the Rings. He was born in Passaic, New Jersey. He died of complications of Alzheimer’s disease in San Francisco at age 92.
2010 ~ Mary Daly (b. Oct. 16, 1928), American radical feminist lesbian philosopher and scholar who barred men from her classes. She taught at Boston College. She died at age 81.
2009 ~ William Devereux Zantzinger (b. Feb. 7, 1939), American farmer from Maryland who inspired a Bob Dylan classic civil rights song, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll. Zantzinger had killed a black barmaid with his cane. He served 6 months for the murder. He died at age 69.
2009 ~ Pat Hingle (né Martin Patterson Hingle; b. July 19, 1924), American character actor. He died at age 84.
2009 ~ Betty Freeman (née Betty Wishnick; b. June 2, 1921), American philanthropist and photographer.
2007 ~ William Verity, Jr. (né Calvin William Verity, Jr.; b. Jan. 26, 1917), 27th United States Secretary of Commerce. He served in the Ronald Reagan administration from October 1987 until January 1989. He died 23 days before his 90th birthday.
1993 ~ Johnny Most (né John M. Most; b. June 15, 1923), American sports announcer. He was the radio voice of the Boston Celtics. He was born in New York, New York. He died of a heart attack at age 69 in Hyannis, Massachusetts.
1989 ~ Sergei Sobolev (né Sergei Lvovich Sobolev; b. Oct. 6, 1908), Russian mathematician. He died at age 80.
1981 ~ Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (b. Feb. 25, 1883), British member of the royal family and last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria (1819 ~ 1901). Her father was Prince Leopold (1853 ~ 1884), the eighth and youngest son of Queen Victoria. She was married to Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874 ~ 1957). She died at age 97.
1980 ~ Joy Adamson (née Friederike Victoria Gessner; b. Jan. 20, 1910), Czech conservationist best known for her books about Elsa the lion raised in her home in Africa, including Born Free, Living Free, and Forever Free. She was murdered by a former and disgruntled employee just 17 days before her 70th birthday. Her 2nd husband, George Adamson was also murdered, just 9 years later.
1979 ~ Conrad Hilton, Sr. (né Conrad Nicholson Hilton; b. Dec. 25, 1887), American hotelier and founder of the Hilton Hotels. He died 9 days after his 91st birthday.
1967 ~ Jack Ruby (né Jacob Leonard Rubenstein; b. Apr. 25, 1911), American assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald. Ruby shot Oswald while the news cameras were rolling while Oswald was being transported from a prison in Dallas. Ruby was convicted of murder. He died in prison of lung cancer at age 55.
1927 ~ Carl Runge (né Carl David Tolmé Runge; b. Aug. 30, 1856), German mathematician. He died at age 70.
1920 ~ Zygmunt Janiszweski (b. June 12, 1888), Polish mathematician. He was born in Warsaw, Poland. He died at age 31 during the influenza pandemic in Lviv, Ukraine.
1898 ~ Sul Ross (né Lawrence Sullivan Ross; b. Sept. 27, 1838), 19th Governor of Texas. He served as Governor from January 1887 until January 1891. He died at age 59.
1895 ~ James M. Ives (né James Merritt Ives; b. Mar. 5, 1824), American lithographer and businessman. He was a cofounder, along with Nathaniel Currier (1813 ~ 1888), of Currier and Ives. He died at age 70.
1894 ~ Elizabeth P. Peabody (née Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; b. May 16, 1801), American educator who funded the first kindergarten in the United States. She was born in Billerica, Massachusetts. She died at age 89 in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts.
1795 ~ Josiah Wedgwood (b. July 12, 1730), English potter and founder of the Wedgwood Company. He died at age 64.
1701 ~ Louis I, Prince of Monaco (b. July 25, 1642). He was Prince of Monaco from January 1662 until his death 9 years later. He was married to Catherine Charlotte de Gramont (1639 ~ 1678). He died at age 58.
1690 ~ Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi (b. 1615), Lithuanian rabbi. The exact date of his birth is not known.
1641 ~ Jeremiah Horrocks (b. 1618), English mathematician and astronomer. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been 22 when he suddenly died of unknown causes.
1437 ~ Catherine of Valois (b. Oct. 27, 1401), Queen consort and wife of Henry V of England. She was Queen Consort of England from June 1420 until August 1422 when her husband died. She later entered into a relationship with Owen Tudor. She died at age 35 following complications of childbirth.
1322 ~ King Philip V of France (b. 1292). He was known as Philip the Tall. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but he is believed to have been about 29 at the time of his death.
323 ~ Emperor Yuan (b. 276), Chinese emperor of the Jin dynasty. The date of his birth is not known.
235 ~ Pope St. Anterus. He was Pope for only 44 days. The date of his birth is not known.
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